John S. Casement

John Stephen Casement (19 January 1829-13 December 1909) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
John Stephen Casement was born in Geneva, New York in 1829, and he moved to Michigan with his wife and children in 1844, where Casement worked as a railroad engineer. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, he joined the 7th Ohio Infantry as its Major, and he first fought at the Battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes. After showing bravery at the First Battle of Kernstown, he was made a colonel, and he took part in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign and was promoted to Brigadier-General after again distinguishing himself at the Battle of Franklin later that same year. After the Battle of Wilmington in early 1865, Casement resigned his commission, and he went on to direct the construction of the Union Pacific's section of the Transcontinental Railroad. He died in Painesville, Ohio in 1909.